Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:51:14 04/27/05
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On April 27, 2005 at 11:57:56, Brian Kostick wrote: >I wrote a little password masking function for Win32 console. I'd like to hide >string literals in my executable. I know such things have been mentioned here >before for more clandestine purposes. My question is, is there an easiest way to >do this or should I use an encryption or lookup function? > >Thanks, >Brian Do you mean you want to have something like "crafty 19.20" in the executable, but not visible to the casual observer if they use something like the "strings <filename>" command in unix to display all recognizable strings? If so, what I would do is some simple modification to the strings so that they look like garbage unless the modification is undone. A simple one would be to xor every byte with something like 0xa5 or something similar. Then be sure that the executable does the xor a second time before using the strings...
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